On the interpretive role of theories of gravity and `ugly' solutions to the total evidence for dark matter

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2014.05.008zbMath1294.83101OpenAlexW2051439156MaRDI QIDQ407335

William L. Vanderburgh

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.008

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityconfirmationdark matterunderdeterminationtheory testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Physics (00A79)

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